What's the difference between argument and jesuitism?
Argument
Definition:
(n.) Proof; evidence.
(n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
(n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
(n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.
(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
(v. i.) To make an argument; to argue.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(2) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(3) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(4) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(5) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(6) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(7) The legs of that argument were cut off by the financial crisis.
(8) These changes in the isozyme pattern of PK in aggressive fibromatosis may act as another argument to place them in the category of malignant fibroblastic tumors.
(9) This provides a compelling argument that the protein kinase function of p37mos is an intrinsic property of the protein.
(10) He always had a logical approach to his arguments and I would have described him as fair at the time.
(11) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(12) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(13) In support of this argument, a case of erosive arthritis is reported in a skeleton from Kulubnarti, Republic of the Sudan (c. 700-1450 A.D.).
(14) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.
(15) Since the four determining coefficients may change over evolutionary time-scales, the mathematical results together with a natural selection argument proves that virulence gamma 2 attenuates.
(16) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(17) The IFS gave this argument an airing today, and produced figures to show that – on such a basis – the VAT rise was a fair tax after all.
(18) Questions are raised as to the validity of arguments that crossover positions have been demonstrated to be normally established only during pachytene (after synapsis is maximal).
(19) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
(20) However, to insist that those who advise an IUD with the motive of contraception cannot herefore object to, say, intrauterine saline aimed at the destruction of a moving 27-week fetus is, in my view, stretching his argument.
Jesuitism
Definition:
(n.) The principles and practices of the Jesuits.
(n.) Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
Example Sentences:
(1) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(2) On being a Jesuit Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
(3) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
(4) Jesuits, who have had to wait almost 500 years to see one of their number sit on the papal throne, proudly point out that consultation is one of the foundations of their order.
(5) Noted for his austerity and for using public transport in Buenos Aires, he is considered unusually conservative for a Jesuit.
(6) When asked if the Jesuit Refugee Service had been consulted, she said: “Absolutely not.
(7) After the family’s relocation to the north inner city, Joyce attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit-run school on Great Denmark Street.
(8) Verbitsky's book is based on statements by Orlando Yorio, one of the kidnapped Jesuits, before he died of natural causes in 2000.
(9) On his style of authority My style of government as a Jesuit at the beginning had many faults.
(10) I am even more surprised that he is a brother Jesuit.
(11) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
(12) We decided we wanted to offer it to a young asylum seeker.” At the Paris parish of Saint Merry to which and her husband, Philippe, belong, Pépin had heard of the Welcome to France project run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).
(13) Ever since Bergoglio – the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first to take the name Francis – after St Francis of Assisi – strode out on to the balcony of St Peter's on 13 March to joke that cardinals had been forced to cast their nets to "the end of the Earth" to find a new pontiff , the church has been reinvigorated, reinterpreted and, some would say, purged of a little of the poison of the recent past.
(14) The position of Patiño and other local bishops has put the Catholic church in Mexico in something of a tough spot, said Ilan Semo, a history professor at the Jesuit Ibero-American University in Mexico City.
(15) After the remote, intellectual German theologian came the church's first Jesuit leader, its first Latin American pontiff – and the first pope to take the name of Francis.
(16) Serra’s mandate only arose because the Vatican temporarily disbanded the Jesuits in 1767, and many of the mistakes he and the Franciscans made were the result of inexperience, according to Professor Starr.
(17) The papal historian and former Jesuit Michael Walsh points to the pontiff's recent revamp of the powerful congregation for bishops as proof of his commitment to reforming the curia.
(18) Michael Walsh, a papal historian and former Jesuit, agrees that Pope Francis and Welby appear to be more practical leaders than their scholarly predecessors.
(19) This article is the contribution of a Jesuit priest, a teacher of medical ethics at Uppsala, to a debate inspired by a Swedish official report "The pregnant woman and fetus--2 individuals.
(20) He reckons it was his Jesuit education: “That had an influence.